‘An Abortion Doesn’t Un-Rape a Woman’ Says Cold Hearted Pro-Lifer on CNN
by Bob Cull
On
CNN's Crossfire Wednesday night, pro-lifer, Lila Rose was shown a clip
from 2011 in which she tells Glenn Beck, "Abortion adds more violence to
that violent act [of rape].” After the clip, co-host Sally Kohn asked
Rose if she felt that a woman who has been raped should be forced to carry her attacker's child to term, to which Rose responded:
[box
type="shadow"]“When a woman is raped, that’s a horrible injustice
against her. The rapist should be held to the fullest extent of the
law, liable for that, culpable for that. The woman needs healing and the
support of her community. But an abortion doesn’t un-rape a woman. An
abortion just adds more violence on top of that first she
endured.”[/box]
Rose
goes on to say, "Look at the story of a someone like Rebecca Kiessling,
a woman who was conceived in rape, and she says, 'should I have
received the death penalty for the crimes of my father?'"
Later
she asserts that abortions are "horrific" and that even in the first
trimester the, "hearts [are] beating at three-and-a-half weeks."
At three weeks no such thing has happened, according to the Mayo Clinic website
the "baby's heart and a primitive circulatory system will form in the
middle layer of cells — the mesoderm." The Mayo site goes on to say
that in the sixth week the, "baby's heart is pumping blood."
The
entire time that Rose was speaking NARAL president Ilyse Hogue sat
quietly listening never once interrupting, when Rose paused Hogue said,
"Isn’t it great that we live in a country where Lila Rose could decide
where she would choose
to carry her rapist’s pregnancy to term, but her version of morality
doesn’t actually dictate what I can choose to do in that moment. And
that’s what religious liberty is about."
Watch the video below:
h/t: Opposing Views
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